More Ends to a Stick
Alan Watts 
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Zen highlights the immediate action. So, when you think of doing something, just do it without a second thought. Do not think whether if the action is valuable or well fitted to your whole value system. Why should you? I am not asserting you to be necessarily cruel or reckless but you to be not anxious.
But, God we are too anxious! And main reason for that is within theological view, we condemned ourselves between a stick that has only two ends.
1. At the one end, we have this image of autocratic god that sends us to the life to judge us. See, at this point we became such creatures that ashamed by our existance. We see this image on every celestial religion like Judasim, Christianity and Islam.
Alan Watts himself, talks about his childhood experience;
“ When I was a child, during services on Good Friday, they would give each of us a colored postcard with a crucified Jesus on it. And beneath him were the words: This have done for thee. What doest thou for me ? And we felt awful! Like we ourselves had nailed Jesus to the cross. And we felt guilty for even daring to exist at all.
2. At the other end of the stick, we have this fully-automatic image. Where in this image, you have only natural laws to determine your whole existance and your freewill. So to say you have no freewill at all. You are just a hormone driven machine that resulted from The Big Bang.
See, for the atheists, you are such an accident of the universe. You are not belong to it. So mind aswell kill yourself. Or bear to live in this accidental suffering.
You suffer because you don’t feel yourself to belong anyone or anything, including this universe.
Now get rid of the stick and ask “What if there are other theological images ?” Cant we have such god that likes us to see dance and vibrate with the rhythm of the universe rather than a god that only autcratic and judgemental.
Why do we force ourselves to pick or even think between a life that completely exam and a life that accidental. Cant we be universe itself like everything around us, so that we dont have to atleast being anxious about being anxious and vibrate with the rhythm.
See. No suprise we are anxious all the way long since all we have is that one stick !
And if you think this is all nonsense, you are correct !
Alan Watts says;
“And if you think this is all nonsense you are correct. This is how universe works. A lot of music is nonsense. It doesn’t mean anything, but it can be very interesting. When you were a child, you often took delight in perfectly meaningless things, for example, those door stoppers with springs that make a boing sound. Boing, boing, boing! That is fascinating! It doesn’t mean anything, it just boing. And if you really get into that boing sound, you can see the whole universe in boing, because each vibration implies others.”
A child doesn’t hear boing and think “well that is just a noise, I should identify it.” A child understands that the sound is just fantastic.
Alan Watts again;
“Well i believe in color. If we are going to participate in this illusory dance, then lets really live it up. Lets not take ourselves so damn seriously! We dont need to be scrubbed of ormentation and firvolity”
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